Hmm, so I guess to follow up on my last post. My dad got laid off from his job the other week. He had been working as a electrical engineer at the same place since before I was born, for the last 35 years. I guess I'm not really sure what to think, a mixture worried and pissed about it ( Read more... )

My dad called me yesterday to tell me that he got laid off from the company that he has worked at for 35 years last week.

Hi Livejournal. Like always I've been meaning to post in you but never seem to have time. Tonight is not really an exception since it is 2 AM and I do have work tomorrow, but one of my goals for the weekend was to at least start writing in my blog again ( Read more... )

So this weekend I woke up early Saturday morning to head down to Los Angeles. The plan was to try and surprise my friend Liz for her birthday, albeit two days late. I wasn't quite sure that would be happening however as my old roommate the night before had posted something to the effect of 'OH MY GOD HOW COME YOU DID'T TELL US THAT YOU WERE COMING ( Read more... )

Okay so you may have noticed the large number of posts spewing out of this account. Basically they were all backlogged in the form of word docs that I wrote in the week after we got back. Some of them are not as complete as I would like, but I kind of figured at this point it would be better to just get them out and post them rather than sit and ( Read more... )

Erm, Reno sucked. Every hotel was booked because of the long weekend. We almost snagged a motel room but this old guy ran in front of us and snagged the last room. We gambled a little bit, and of coarse lost all our money. We decided to look for a room outside the city a little bit, but nope, everything was booked solid and besides that, ( Read more... )

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Boise sucks, its scary and dark and there’s nothing there at all. Yelp was right. ‘No local flavor’ whatsoever. Plus, according to my friend Ellen there’s lots of skinheads there. It wasn’t all bad though, we did stop at IHOP and met a crazy waiter.

Yeah, Boise doesn't even need an ljcut.

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